Example sentences of "[adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 3 | Few drivers who bought car insurance policies from Dr Emil Savundra 's Fire Auto & Marine in the mid-1960s will forget the culpability of then Board of Trade . |
| 4 | After that there was no way back for City and Rangers now travel to Marine in the second round on December 5 . |
| 5 | Occupations can feature predominantly , even where the victim is not in the person 's charge ( e.g. SEX OFFENCES OF FORMER M15 MAN ; TOWN CRIER 'S SEX ATTACK ON GIRL , 9 ; MARINE IN BED WITH TOT , 3 ; MARKET MANAGER IN INDECENCY CASE ) . |
| 6 | He was appointed a midshipman in the Bombay Marine in 1817 and arrived in India in May 1818 . |
| 7 | A LEADING environmental scientist — who has contributed to several television documentaries on green issues — today called on the Department of Marine in Dublin to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of swans at Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal . |
| 8 | Yet can we really take it for granted that parents are so utterly changeless in their behaviour and attitudes to their children ? |
| 9 | It was then , just as the first signs of Arab flexibility appeared , that in Israel the notion took root that the renunciation of ‘ grand designs ’ was erroneous in its minimalism . |
| 10 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the statement in the judgment of the Court of Appeal , at p. 377d , to the effect that , if the apparent consent of the owner is brought about by dishonesty , there is nothing in the words of section 1(1) to make such apparent consent relevant as providing a defence is , with respect , erroneous in relation to a charge of theft ( which was the relevant charge ) if the words ‘ appropriates ’ bears the meaning which the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( rightly , in my opinion ) has deliberately given it . |
| 12 | Therefore , the narrow issue in this case is whether , as Mr. Page contends and the courts below have held , certiorari lies against the visitor to quash his decision as being erroneous in point of law notwithstanding that the question of law arises under the domestic law of the university which the visitor has ‘ exclusive ’ jurisdiction to decide . |
| 13 | Somerville had my record straight in the 1959 Register , but mysteriously erroneous in 1970 ! |
| 14 | Hilton embodies his understanding of this journey in images of light and darkness based on an anagogical reading of two texts from Isaiah 26:9 : " mi soule desired in " and 9:2 : Habitantibus in regione umbrae mortis , lux orta est eis which he translates " to the wonend in contre of shadwe of dede , was spronge " [ wonend : dwellers ] ( 25.92r. – 238 ) . |
| 15 | And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking . |
| 16 | Their poison has the same origin as that of the snakes — modified saliva — but the animals are much more primitive in their wounding mechanism . |
| 17 | Because he draws his criteria from a particular musical tradition — a ‘ music of thought ’ , characterized by the working out of themes over extended , integrated forms and requiring concentrated , ‘ intellectual ’ listening — he regards other forms of music as either primitive in comparison or as corruptions of this tradition . |
| 18 | The bodies are flatter , more distorted and more angular , and the heads more truly primitive in appearance . |
| 19 | Words like blood and loyalty and revenge and endurance awaken something primitive in their auditors , who enjoy the sensation of adrenalin coursing in their veins . |
| 20 | This meant that you had to type everything , including the definitions for forms and reports , making dBFast more primitive in this aspect even than dBASE III Plus ! |
| 21 | As we shall see later , it is not that the superego does not exist in these circumstances , but that it is undeveloped , unsupported by cultural forces of a progressive character ( and therefore vulnerable to exploitation by those of a regressive nature ) , and is primitive in its functioning . |
| 22 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 23 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 24 | Now , ever since the emigrations and plantations of past ages , Ulster has been Scottish in character . |
| 25 | Hampden Babylon is unmistakably Scottish in its love of football but like all love-affairs , Scotland 's relationship with the game has been stormy and impetuous . |
| 26 | Providing they beat both Saracens and London Scottish in their remaining two games they can finish as high as fifth in the Premier Division . |
| 27 | another of our teams on the wrong end of the result this weekend … were Gloucester … they went and lost to London Scottish in their first league match of the season … the score eight-three |
| 28 | In a programme ranging in character from Willie was a Wanton Wag to the Englishman William Boyce 's rather inadequate attempts to sound Scottish in A Scots Cantata , Anderson 's understandable shortcomings could surely have been further compensated for by violinist Richard Gwilt , but inconsistent articulation coupled with a lack of incisiveness negated much of the music 's subtlety . |
| 29 | Ahdaf Soueif in this paper felt that men were such a sorry , beleaguered lot anyway that the books ' ’ combative polemic ’ , with French in particular going wildly over the top , was likely to prove counter-productive . |
| 30 | By now almost wholly French in his artistic outlook , in August 1824 he was as amazed as his French contemporaries when Constable 's Hay Wain and Hampstead Heath were exhibited at the famous Salon Anglais . |